The couple stays in an isolated, cavernous mansion provided by a local caretaker, Mr. Grieves. While Edgar focuses on their professional work, Nancy begins to experience disturbing supernatural phenomena, including hearing the cries of a baby and seeing the apparition of a young boy.

Unlike other episodes in the series that focus on creature features, " The Murmuring " is a psychological "trauma horror" story. Cabinet of Curiosities: Season 1, Episode 8

Set in 1951, the episode follows (Essie Davis) and Edgar Bradley (Andrew Lincoln), a married pair of ornithologists who travel to a remote island off Nova Scotia to study the flight patterns, or "murmurations," of dunlin birds.

The eighth and final episode of the Netflix anthology series Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities is titled . Directed and written by Jennifer Kent ( The Babadook ), the story is based on an original short story by Guillermo del Toro . Plot Overview